[Deptheads] Seminar Event Label

[Kryssie]

The speaking seminars, to my knowledge and one year experience, are never
well attended.  Likely because there's just *so much* to do and the
seminars fall during games and such that it's difficult for people to get
to everything they want to play and see.

For example.  In RPGs, if I want to play a 2pm game AND go to a
speaker/seminar at 5pm, I'm sorta SOL.  I have to choose one or the
other--and if I choose the seminar, I get to stand around for 3 hours and
do nothing (I'm not a board gamer or a card gamer).  In fact, that was a
problem I ran into this past convention--even with all the games going on
in RPGs, I still found myself with nothing to do for hours on end because
games were full or I had something scheduled in the middle of a game or, in
one case, I was so offended by the GM, I left 10 minutes into the game.

Maybe we should re-look at our scheduling?  We could offer more RPGs if
people were willing to start them every hour.  I know it forces us to use
more space, but if we stagger the start times of games, you don't have
people wandering around, waiting...plus, it makes it easier for people to
get into a board game/tournament and/or see a guest speaker or go on a tour
or something like that if they don't or cant' join a 2pm RPG or something.

Perhaps I could talk to Robyn about it offline... >_>  It just popped into
my head due to running a couple things over the past year that have had
less than vibrant attendance--like the seminar I'd planned for Women in
Gaming...and Costuming & Cosplay... the Costume Contest (but, that's moving
completely into something else).  I know there was a guest who was doing a
Q&A once who had all of three people show up--and 2 of them worked with me
in the D20 Girls...they weren't there because they wanted to be, they were
there because they felt badly.

Sorry for the long-winded response.  I just think we really need to
re-examine our scheduling and try to coordinate it all a little bit better.

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:12 AM, <Evil5757 at aol.com> wrote:

> **
> I feel the best option is to have Seminars actually become a department
> instead of a collection of "who's speaking." We used to have people come to
> the con JUST FOR the seminars and they had a blast. To the best of my
> knowledge, we don't have anyone beating the bushes for speakers or a War
> College and we should.
>
> Karl and Mike, would you be willing to tie into Bootcamp and Historical
> Miniatures and fill the War College void and get it going again? I will be
> working with the Manufactors next convention to build towards them giving a
> talk on all their new products coming up (hopefully kicking off with
> Gateway). If successful, it should bring 11 or more manufactors to speak,
> each with give-aways at the seminar.
>
> I seriously think it should be something we work to improve. A new label
> might be in order, but we should look at it in a positive way. Maybe "Guest
> Speakers," "Gaming Speakers," "something to let people know it will be new
> and exciting information.
>
> John
>
>  In a message dated 2/22/2012 7:33:49 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> Tim at stugiii.com writes:
>
> We need to change the "Seminar" "department" and label to something more
> meaningful.  I know some con's label these events as "Other" or "Misc.".  I
> really don't like those labels.  We can't call them "Special Events"
> because we already have a definition for that and some of the events
> currently listed under "Seminar" would not fit there.
>
> Perhaps "General"?
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Tim
>
>
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